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Penny for your thoughts? Leftover from New Orleans. I've never had green toenails before. A daring choice for me, and I got lots of compliments. This was called Showmethe$, but it's jade green to me: good luck. #fromwhereistand #nola
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Missing pet! If found, handle Scratchy with care.
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Tonight's healthy dinner: Lundberg black japonica rice with garlicky, spicy braised kale and smoked paprika; greens and organic mixed sprouts (chickpea, alfalfa, radish and arugula) and sunflower seeds with an anchovy, garlic, and white wine vinegar EVOO
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A couple renewing their vows in Central Park. This bride was stunning in her kimono with the rock 'n' roll hair.
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One last aerial shot, Citi Field, home of the NY Mets.
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View of lower Manhattan, the East River, and Brooklyn, with the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, as I flew into LaGuardia last Saturday.
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Back in New York with a view of the Mets' Citi Field.
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Sunday church hats on Dauphine.
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Slamming dinner at Me'Lange in the Marigny. This is my duck Dauphine, in an aged sherry and honey gastrique, with blue cheese pecan risotto and yellow beet carpaccio. Jock had the shrimp and grits with Manchego corn in a red chili Abita sauce. Chef is for
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The terrific Linnzi Zaorski. “Linnzi is the Ninth Ward’s torchiest torch singer, evoking the lost, romantic days when men were men and women were dames in seamed stockings and stiletto heels.” —Offbeat Magazine
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A Sloe Comfortable Screw: sloe gin, creamy coconut, and orange.
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Waiter, there's a shrimp in my Bloody Mary!
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Aubert Motor Co.'s Spanish Revival historic Gulfport building, constructed in 1928-29. I love the motif of the wheel surrounded by wings. Snapped from the VW Bug as we drove by.
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We're going to need a bigger boat.
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Oh, Mr. Grundy, I'm so happy I could eat you up, I really could You know what I'd like to do, Mr. Grundy? What I dream, if the business stays as good? Where I'd really like to go in a year or so Don't you want to know? Of course Do you really want to kno
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Ocean Springs' famous TatoNut potato-flour yeast donut. We had the Persian, with cinnamon. Tasty.
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This morning I did sun salutations and warrior on the beach with my toes in the Gulf and my hands in the sand, jogged along the water's edge, hurdled the sand a bulldozer had just pushed back onto the beach, and found this fish vertebra that looks like an
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My first meal at the Waffle House. Not bad at all. Pecan waffle, grits, and hash browns with ham, tomato, and jalapeño.
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Good morning sunshine!
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Grape VW bus--so cute you just wanna hug it.
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Bathroom stalls at the Shed.
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Who doesn't love a man in a kilt? People were stopping Jock to take photos in the French Quarter, and one taxi driver actually jumped out of his cab to do so. A Scot we passed on Canal Street said, "I canna believe you're wearing that. It's too damn hot."
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Dancers on Frenchmen Street in the Marigny.
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Sunday dinner at La Petite Grocery: spaghetti with clams in a coloratura of anchovy and crab roe; roasted cauliflower with capers; and strawberry shortcake with a fig leaf ice cream. The ice cream tasted teasingly like coconut. Not pictured but absolutely
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In New Orleans you can get your church on in the church...or in a bar called the Holy Ground (services held daily). Just cross the street.
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Girls on the banks of Bayou St. John.
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Sunday at Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo on Bayou St. John.
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Utt's Liver Pills ghost ad, which may have originally read Tutt's: "Save Your Money. One box of Tutt's Liver Pills will save you many dollars in doctor's bills. They will surely cure all diseases of the stomach, liver, or bowels. No Recklass Assertion. Fo
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Emerson's Ginger Mint Julep ghost ad. Isaac Emerson (born 1859) made his fortune from headache remedy Bromo-Seltzer and was a pioneer in advertising his wares.
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Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan nut brown ale and cigars on the balcony. Chilling out after days of walking the Quarter.
